I have a fascination with ancient Greece and its history. It frequently intersects my art and poetry.
My oldest daughter Lizzie has a cool ancient history class on Outschool. I think culture is important. I also teach the kids ancient history myself. They receive it well.
Free Ancient Greece Learning Resources
Free document. Ancient Greece Learning Ideas with images and 49 ideas for learning about Greek history and ancient Greek culture. Download yours through this link:
Read our blog as we have shared ancient Greek inspired poetry, lesson plans, mythology, art, paper dolls, and more.
Follow us as I will be creating more materials based on these stunning images. I created this ebook to use it in my daughter’s home education, so you will see much more on this topic.
I’m so excited to share a special FREE resource with you today! This parent guide is packed with creative ideas to help your kids dive into the beauty and history of Ancient Greece. It’s perfect for homeschoolers who want to spark curiosity and make learning come alive through art, history, and storytelling.
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Creative activity ideas tailored for ages 10–12
Ways to use art and storytelling to engage your kids
Tips on how visuals can transform learning into an unforgettable adventure
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Thanksgiving poetry reading by Eve on the girls’ YouTube channel.
This Thanksgiving poem, along with other poems and a video, are coming very soon.
Christmas Challenge coming next consisting of one poem a day. I already wrote with my daughters more than 20, and we are also designing free e-cards to share.
Many of the Christmas poems are already scheduled.
I am using these poems for homeschooling purposes, and we will talk about Lilli and Lizzie’s poetry and songwriting efforts soon.
I will be using these to inspire my children to create stories with me.
Here’s a list of 12 immersive and fun creative writing prompts for children, designed to spark their imagination and encourage playful storytelling. Each prompt includes character ideas, inspiration, and fun questions to fuel their creativity:
1. The Day My Pet Could Talk
Inspiration: One morning, your pet wakes up and starts talking! But they have an important message to tell you.
Character Ideas: A wise-talking dog, a sassy cat, or a shy hamster who knows a secret.
Fun Questions: What does your pet sound like? What’s the first thing they say? What secret have they been hiding all this time?
2. A Trip to a Candy Planet
Inspiration: You discover a hidden rocket ship in your backyard that takes you to a planet made entirely of candy.
Character Ideas: A candy-loving alien, a chocolate river guide, or a gingerbread scientist.
Fun Questions: What does everything taste like? How do you get around on a candy planet? What’s the biggest danger in a world made of sweets?
3. The Invisible Friend
Inspiration: You make an invisible friend who helps you with school and adventures, but only you can see them.
Character Ideas: A mischievous ghost, a friendly shadow, or a tiny, invisible fairy.
Fun Questions: How do you introduce them to others? What do you and your invisible friend do together? What happens when they accidentally cause trouble?
4. A Dragon Moves In Next Door
Inspiration: A family of dragons moves into the house next to yours, and they need your help fitting into human life.
Character Ideas: A fire-breathing dragon with stage fright, a baby dragon who loves making pancakes, or a grumpy grandparent dragon.
Fun Questions: How do the dragons hide their wings and tails? What jobs do they get in the neighborhood? What happens when they accidentally breathe fire?
5. The Secret Library in the Attic
Inspiration: You find a secret door in your attic that leads to a magical library filled with books that come to life.
Character Ideas: A talking book that gives you advice, a librarian wizard, or a knight from a fairy tale who’s tired of fighting dragons.
Fun Questions: Which book do you open first? What happens when a character from a story steps out of the pages? Can you create your own story-world?
6. Superhero School
Inspiration: You discover you have superpowers and get invited to a school for young superheroes.
Character Ideas: A kid who can turn invisible, someone who can talk to animals, or a hero who controls the weather but sneezes and makes tornadoes.
Fun Questions: What’s your superhero name? What’s your first mission? How do you balance saving the world with homework?
7. The Mysterious Box
Inspiration: One day, you find a mysterious box on your doorstep with a note that says, “Do not open until midnight.”
Character Ideas: A curious inventor, a sneaky detective, or a magical creature hiding inside the box.
Fun Questions: Do you open the box early? What’s inside? Does it lead to an adventure or bring a surprise visitor?
8. Lost in a Maze of Giant Toys
Inspiration: You get lost in a life-size toy store where all the toys are gigantic—and they come to life!
Character Ideas: A helpful stuffed bear, a bossy robot, or a teddy bear who’s afraid of heights.
Fun Questions: How do you find your way out? What’s the most amazing giant toy you meet? What happens when a toy decides it wants to be your friend forever?
9. The Treehouse Time Machine
Inspiration: You build a treehouse in your backyard and discover it’s secretly a time machine that can take you anywhere in history.
Character Ideas: A daring time-traveling squirrel, a kid inventor from the future, or a pirate from the past who got stuck in the wrong time.
Fun Questions: Where do you travel first? Who do you meet? What happens if you accidentally change something important in history?
10. My Life as a Tiny Person
Inspiration: One day, you wake up and you’ve shrunk to the size of a bug!
Character Ideas: A talking ladybug guide, a friendly ant army, or a wise old beetle who knows the way back.
Fun Questions: How do you get around now that you’re tiny? What everyday things are now giant-sized obstacles? How do you get back to normal?
11. The Magical Market
Inspiration: You stumble upon a hidden marketplace where magical creatures sell enchanted objects and potions.
Character Ideas: A potion-brewing witch, a friendly gnome shopkeeper, or a mischievous talking cat selling magic beans.
Fun Questions: What magical item do you buy? What does it do? Does it lead to an unexpected adventure or a big mistake?
12. Underwater Adventure
Inspiration: While swimming at the beach, you find a secret underwater kingdom that needs your help to solve a mystery.
Character Ideas: A playful dolphin, a royal sea turtle, or a jellyfish with a glowing map.
Fun Questions: How do you breathe underwater? What is the mystery you need to solve? What magical sea creatures do you meet along the way?
These prompts offer a blend of imagination, adventure, and mystery, giving kids fun characters and scenarios to build creative short stories from!
But she came to me and requested help.with her letter g, lowercase.
She collaborated with me to create this G poem and practiced until we loved her letter g.
The graceful groom In Ancient Greece Was in gloom all week: Ghastly days, lost grace, His good wife, a ghost, In the green garden. Heart goes grey, Galaxies away, Gracious goddess: Gown, crown, greatness. Green grape dance to the god, Bring my wife back. The god’s generous reply, A glistening sun ray, And a goose to greet. In two years time, Sacrifice a goat, And your girl will grow From the goose, Take care and groom her Be warned: if you neglect her, Your guilt a curse will be To grueling loneliness.
End of story by Lizzie
The groom agrees, he will not neglect the Goose. Two years pass slowly, the groom Has been taking good care of the goose, the Groom brings the goat to the altar, and Prays, Grape god returns, Two years have Passed, Your wish shall be granted, goose Into wife, I command. The groom reunited, He is happy again with his wife. This story Ends with a happy ending.
Lizzie practiced her letter g handwriting by writing the poem on a paper and her creative writing by creating this poem with me as well as writing the ending all by herself.
Rima y Ritmo is my cool Spanish class where I use poetry to teach my kids my native language. I already taught this lesson to my children, and they loved it. I am currently designing lesson 2: the poem is about a butterfly.
Below are the printable worksheets from my Rima y Ritmo class 1 ebook.
Print the printables, including the poem and read the lesson plan I linked above and using the poem and translation, work through these exercises. My children found them non easy.
Let me know if you need the answers.
Let me know if this helped and if you want to see more like this.
(Spanish learning/ teaching? Scrool to the end for my fun lesson)
It is true that I love language study and learning and I love Duolingo, even though I am not happy they do not have a level two once you finish you language course. I finished my Latin course and got bored, picked up 2 more languages…
This is my Duolingo report this week:
I guess I have a need to prove I am a real person. Why?
With the modern trend of everything we find being AI, I do have a need to prove that I am a real person who really studies language and teaches her children.
Just today we did Halloween arts and crafts…
Anyway, let us connect on Duolingo if you use it, find me as Eve Sanchez.
Why Duolingo
I am currently trying to have more XP on Greek, also struggling with my Greek.
I do not need to learn a language, but I attempted to get my kids interested in Spanish, my first language, and they do not want to be told what to learn, they have their own opinions and ideas, which is really cute…
I joined Duolingo to inspire my kids to learn languages because they imitate anything I do: no pressure.
It worked because they started learning languages too. They are not organized and quit their own Duolingo, yet, Lilli does my Latin lessons at times, Vivi is learning the Greek alphabet with me, they have a Dinolingo Spanish course, Lilli took a Latin class, Lilli and I have Latin jokes, Alex does the Greek lessons with me and repeats the Greek words, Lilli and Vivi took Spanish classes: it worked, but my inspiration effort is ongoing.
Part of my effort is to have them observe my own learning, as well as to experience my learning methods which are varied and colorful, on top of that to expose them to different languages: music in Spanish and Italian; Italian, Latin, Greek words, phrases, and entire videos or podcasts being broadcasted in our house; and more.
And you,
Are you learning or teaching a language? Which? Do you have tips?
Do you listen to music in your target language?
Learning Spanish?
Check out my cool Spanish with poetry clas:
Purchase the class through this link which includes a children’s printable workbook, a test, and more:
Edit: My children loved the class and printable worksheet and requested more classes like this. Follow for the next classes coming up in the same fun but in-depth manner.
I have been pitching the idea everywhere that poetry is an excellent tool for language learning as reading materials. And now I will prove by creating the most creative Spanish lesson ever.
The full lesson, including a printable worksheet and test for children is available if you need additional help with this material:
Here’s why poetry is amazing for language learning:
Culture
Deep learning through complexity of poetry
Fun content that is memorable
Rhyming and rhythm helps with memorization
Spanish: 1st level. Lesson 1
Hola mi amigo (Hello my friend) poem by Eve. Read further, and I’ll explain every word and phrase.
This poem is appropriate for a level 1 learning. It uses simple language and common phrases, making it accessible for beginners. This is a little more intense than the usual level 1 dialog, but it is also much more memorable, and I bet you can engage with this content more than with the usual language class dialog.
The main points for teaching are:
Basic Vocabulary: The words and expressions are straightforward and familiar, suitable for early learners.
Simple Sentence Structure: The poem’s structure is uncomplicated, which helps learners grasp basic sentence formation and concepts.
Easy to memorize: I do not attempt to memorize vocabulary anymore. That is the “boring” learning style that many of us reject. I like to engage with the reading content. However, poetry is naturally easier to memorize than prose or conversations. You will find yourself remembering without trying, especially if you do it with fun in mind and without judging your learning speed.
Lesson Plan. Feel free to use this for personal use/ homeschooling
(For more learning, I’m collecting all this into an ebook, return, and you will see additional lesson posts totally free)
If you’re a teacher and wish to use this material, let me know.
Welcome to my unique language lesson, where we explore the beauty of poetry as a tool for learning. Poetry is more than just a form of artistic expression; it’s a gateway to deep emotional understanding and linguistic mastery. By delving into poetry, you’ll not only enhance your language skills but also gain insight into the cultural and emotional nuances of Spanish.
Why poetry? It offers a fun and engaging way to learn, transforming the study of vocabulary and grammar into a creative and immersive experience. Poetry often includes complex structures and rich imagery, which challenges learners to think critically and understand the language on a deeper level. Many native speakers might not fully grasp the subtleties of poetry, but by engaging with it, you’ll achieve a profound and sophisticated understanding of the language.
In this class, we’ll use carefully selected poems to guide our learning journey. You’ll explore themes, emotions, and linguistic intricacies that will elevate your understanding of the language. Let’s embark on this poetic adventure together and discover the power of language through the art of verse.
Poem translation
Hello my friend, Talk to me, Come in, and tell me, How are you? Give me a hug And between my arms Feel my love.
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